Alisa Frik

Dr. Alisa Frik is a research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). She is a member of the Usable Security and Privacy research group and the Berkeley Laboratory for Usable and Experimental Security (BLUES). She applies her expertise in social sciences, behavioral and experimental economics, decision-making, behavior change, and choice architecture to investigate privacy and security attitudes, behaviors, expectations and preferences of regular and underrepresented populations of online users and software developers. She explores how contextual and human factors, including trust, heuristics and biases, and behavioral interventions, such as personalized nudges, affect users’ privacy and security behaviors and decisions. She focuses not only on web and mobile privacy and security, but also on emerging technologies in healthcare, Internet of Things, digital advertising, smart voice assistants, Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. She is experienced in survey and interview design, online, lab and field experiments, experience sampling, and other mixed methods (including quantitative and qualitative analyses). She has obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics at the School of Social Sciences, University of Trento, Italy.

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